wagabone

"Stole me silver-framed mirror, 'e' as, the young wagabone -- a genuine hantique worth its weight in hemeralds -- stole me mirror and don't deny it, neither --!"

Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

"Did ye see ever a desprit, poachin 'wagabone run down this' ere lane, sir?" he inquired.

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

"V'ere is it, ye young wagabone?" he demanded in shrill accents.

Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

"Now the vorst of all these rogues vos a cove called Black Dan, a thieving, murdering, desprit wagabone as vere ewcntually 'ung sky-'igh on Pembury' Ill --"

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

"You have hit it, sir, werry close; besides, I long mosh to return to my poor wife, Nancy Cator, dat I leave, wagabone dat I is, just about to be confine."

Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

Call me a wagabone if you like, but don't hurt my feelins.

Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1 1847

"Ah, that's him -- that's the wagabone that said my house was on fire when it warn't; that's him as frightened me so, that I'm quite thin through it."

Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3 1847

Well, Finn served this giant a considerable time, doing all kinds of hard and unreasonable service for him, and receiving all kinds of hard words, and many a hard knock and kick to boot -- sorrow befall the ould wagabone who could thus ill treat a helpless foundling.

The Pocket George Borrow George Henry Borrow 1842

'This giant, whose name was Darmod David Odeen, was not a respectable person at all, but a big ould wagabone.

The Pocket George Borrow George Henry Borrow 1842

You von't think o 'arrestin' your own son for the money, and sendin 'him off to the Fleet, will you, you unnat'ral wagabone?'

The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841